The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-27
PEW AND PULPIT.


of the Unitarian Church.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church will meetin st. Louis
May 10.
The Brooklyn Union says the Society of
Friends overnight has been known to con-
vert man into Shaker the next morning.
The Duke of Westminster has announced
that he will give $1,000 year for the
building of churches during the remainder
Of his natural lie.
DR.. Alabaster, of Trinity Methodist
Church, Chicago, and formerly of this city,
is reported as rapidly gaining his health,
and expects to be able to renew his pastoral
relations May 8.
Lady (ready for church)-My dear, are
the book stores open to-day? / want
book of common prayer. Husband Whose
Sunday morning headache makes him alb
sent-minded) TRY the side door.
Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada, who has
Just returned from Rome, still adheres to
his opposition to the knights of Labor.
The views of Cardinal Gibbons he believes
to be contrary to the doctrines of the
church.
One of the oldest preachers in the coun-
try is Elder Philip S. Fales, of the old
Christian or Campbellite Church in Nash
vile, Tenn. He has preached there since
its dedication sixty-one years ago, and his
age is eighty-nine.
The appearance of the star of Bethlehem
is looked for by astronomers this year for
the sixth time since the birth of Christ. 1t
Is so brilliant as to appear by day as well
as by night, and is watched for directly
north of the north star.
Papa-Well, girls, Lent is over, and now
what have you done for the good of the
church during the season of penanceP
Bess with sudden attack of bravery
Molly hasn't done much of anything; but
I-hm-er-Tve promised to marry the
new rector.
Archdeacon Farrar says that ''he who
talks of missions as failure uses the
language of ignorant error as an excuse
for uncEristian sloth." In nine cases out
OF ten the men who speak of the work of
missions as unproductive know next to
nothing of what has been done.
The So called religious press is claiming
that Mi chigan was carried by about 10, 900
majority for prohibition, and that the OPP
ponents OF the measure committed frauds
in the count to show that it was defeated
by 1000 votes. This is scarcely brotherly
on the part OF the press in question, but 1t
would not do to criticise.
Mamma" said a small boy the other
day, do little boy angels wear shoes and
stockings in summer timer mo, my
son." "Do they go barefooted?' Eyes"
"And do they stay out after shutdown"
81 presume So" "Well, don't the stars
tickle their feet when they twinkler'
The fond mother was nonplused.
A group of young men said to Detroit
pastor a few days before election: "Dr.
-, we hear a great deal about this pro-
| hibltion amendment, but we don't get any
hint OF your opinion. Won't you tell US
| what you really think about it?'' The
| pastor replid: Morally the amendment
is all right, but politically it is all wrong"
Rev. Robert Collyer, the popular and
| gifted preacher, discussed ''The Moral In
| fuence of the Secular Press" at meeting
of the Baptist Social Union, in New York.
| In his remarks he admitted that he read
| his Sunday morning paper at breakfast be-
| fore he retouched his sermon for church,
and thought he got some good ideas that
way.
John Ruskin denies that he is Roman
/ Catholic. He says: II was, am, and can
be only christian Catholic in the wide
and eternal sense. / have been that Tor
| five and twenty years at least. Heaven
| keep me from being less as / grow older I;
| but am no more likely to become Ro-
man Catholic than Quaker, Evangelical
| or Turk"
Rev. DR.. Loriper, of the First Baptist
| Church, Chicago, created something OF q
sensation at a recent meeting of evangelists
and temperance workers by announcing
that he believed himself to be the best
natured man in the world, having worked
a whole week with a revivalist without
having row. DR.. Lorimer was formerly
an actor.
The Sabbath-school teacher had spent
considerable time in drilling into her pu-
pills the truth that "pride cometh before a
fall" Near the close of the lesson, wishing
to test the result of her efforts, she in
| quired: ''Now, children, can you tell me
what comes before fall?" Eyes, ma'am
summer" was the reply from the seat
fsrthest away.
Faithful Pastor-A minister's life is q
very hard one. Parishioner-Why, there
are only two sermons a week to write, and
- "Ohl don't mind sermon-writing
that's easy enough. But my duties require
frequent visits to the homes OF every mem.
Der of the congregation, and just think OF
the strain on my conscience" "CoD-
science?' ayes. am expected to adj
mire all the new babies"